Can't open XSynth's DSSI GUI

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When using the XSynth DSSI synth plugin within Qtractor, there doesn't seem to be a way of bringing up the synth's DSSI GUI. Other DSSI and LV2 plugins have an "Edit" button on their settings windows that allows you to open the plugin's own GUI, but with XSynth, when I double-click on it, I get a Qtractor-generated GUI with all of its parameters, but no Edit button to open its own GUI. The Qtractor-generate UI is fine for quick tweaks, but you need to use the proper GUI for any patch bank manipulation.

I came across this when I sent an XSynth patch of my own to someone, and they were unable to import it at all from within Qtractor. In the end, we used Whysynth instead, since it can import XSynth packages, but that's not ideal.

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Re: Can't open XSynth's DSSI GUI

there is a fix related to this type of misses on svn trunk...

if you don't have the patience to build it up again, there's a hack you can do to the xsynth-dssi plugin install, and it goes like this:

first locate where is xsynth-dssi gui installed; it can be either under /usr/local/lib/dssi/xsynth-dssi or /usr/lib/dssi/xsynth-dssi (note that some 64bit systems names lib64 instead of lib); probably the gui program is named after Xsynth_gtk instead of xsynth-dssi_gui as qtractor expects, so the workaround is about making the following symlink (as root):

ln -s Xsynth_gtk xsynth-dssi_gtk

if all goes well, after that qtractor will show the "Edit" button alright :)

cheers

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Thanks for that :) I built

Thanks for that :) I built the latest code from SVN, and I can confirm that the Edit button now appears, and clicking that brings up the XSynth GUI as expected. Excellent!

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